Nicholas MacPhail

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises